KnuttinAtoll wrote:
phAge wrote:
KnuttinAtoll wrote:
Don't they do that for 'training' purposes i.e. to hone their skills?
People who hunt for fun (I posted some c word examples on a previous page as reference) do this for nothing but to massage their ego. How is that not different to someone who shoots their game in order to eat it, or for another reason I would consider sensible such as culling pests (which are usually caused by human intervention in the first place)?
Having a trophy of an animal's head on the wall is not a sensible reason, nor is a picture of holding an elephant's tail in one's hand. Or holding up a barely living fish to show your mates what you found and chuck the injured animal back into the water. There's just no need for it.
Nope - animals like dolphins like to murder smaller marine wildlife for the thrill of it (far as we can tell).
As for what constitutes a "sensible reason" - who are you to judge? Why is spending thousands of pounds on collecting, say, stamps or bottle caps, "sensible"? Where is the "need"?
How many animals or people die in the process of collecting stamps?
Very few, I imagine.
Which leaves the question: Why is your eating meat (which requires killing, often in gruesome ways, far worse than most animals shot by hunters) not a "hobby"?
You don't need to eat meat, and do it solely for pleasure. That you're not the one breeding the animal under horrible conditions, transporting them hundreds of kilometres under extreme stress and then killing them with gas, electricity or a metal rod through the face doesn't change the fact that you support the practise, so you can have the pleasure of eating meat. |
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